The focus of this five-day instructor-led course is on creating managed enterprise BI solutions. It describes how to implement multidimensional and tabular data models, deliver reports with Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, create dashboards with Microsoft SharePoint Server PerformancePoint Services, and discover business insights by using data mining.

Note: This course is designed for customers who are interested in learning SQL Server 2012 or SQL Server 2014. It covers the new features in SQL Server 2014, but also the important capabilities across the SQL Server data platform.

Who Should Attend

This course is intended for database professionals who need to fulfill a Business Intelligence Developer role to create analysis and reporting solutions. Primary responsibilities include:

Implementing analytical data models, such as OLAP cubes.

Implementing reports, and managing report delivery.

Creating business performance dashboards.

Supporting data mining and predictive analysis.

Course Outline

Module 1: Introduction to Business Intelligence and Data Modeling

As a SQL Server database professional, you may be required to participate in, or perhaps even lead, a project with the aim of implementing an effective enterprise BI solution. Therefore, it is important that you have a good understanding of the various elements that comprise a BI solution, the business and IT personnel typically involved in a BI project, and the Microsoft products that you can use to implement the solution.

Lessons

Elements of an Enterprise BI Solution

The Microsoft Enterprise BI Platform

Planning an Enterprise BI Project

Module 2: Creating Multidimensional Databases

This module provides an introduction to multidimensional databases and introduces the core components of an Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) cube.

Lessons

Introduction to Multidimensional Analysis

Creating Data Sources and Data Source Views

Creating a Cube

Overview of Cube Security

Module 3: Working with Cubes and Dimensions

This module describes how to create and configure dimensions and dimension hierarchies in an Analysis Services multidimensional data model.

Lessons

Configuring Dimensions

Defining Attribute Hierarchies

Sorting and Grouping Hierarchies

Module 4: Working with Measures and Measure Groups

This module describes measures and measure groups. It also explains how you can use them to define fact tables and associate dimensions with measures.

Lessons

Working with Measures

Working with Measure Groups

Module 5: Introduction to MDX

This module describes the fundamentals of MDX and explains how to build calculations, such as calculated members and named sets.

Lessons

MDX Fundamentals

Adding Calculations to a Cube

Using MDX to Query a Cube

Module 6: Enhancing a Cube

This module describes how to enhance a cube with Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), actions, perspectives, and translations.

Lessons

Working with Key Performance Indicators

Working with Actions

Working with Perspectives

Working with Translations

Module 7: Implementing an Analysis Services Tabular Data Model

This module describes Analysis Services tabular data models and explains how to develop a tabular data model using the SQL Server Data Tools for Business Intelligence (BI) add-in for Visual Studio.

Lessons

Introduction to Analysis Services Tabular Data Models

Creating a Tabular Data Model

Using an Analysis Services Tabular Data Model in the Enterprise

Module 8: Introduction to DAX

This module explains the fundamentals of the DAX language. It also explains how you can use DAX to create calculated columns and measures, and how you can use them in your tabular data models.

Lessons

DAX Fundamentals

Enhancing a Tabular Data Model with DAX

Module 9: Implementing Reports with SQL Server Reporting Services

This module introduces Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services and discusses the tools and techniques that a professional BI developer can use to create and publish reports.

Lessons

Introduction to Reporting Services

Creating a Report with Report Designer

Grouping and Aggregating Data in a Report

Publishing and Viewing a Report

Module 10: Enhancing Reports with SQL Server Reporting Services

This module describes how to enhance a SQL Server reporting Services report with charts and other visualizations, and how to use parameters to filter data in a report.

Lessons

Showing Data Graphically

Filtering Reports by Using Parameters

Module 11: Managing Report Execution and Delivery

This module describes how to apply security and report execution settings, and how to create subscriptions to deliver reports.

Lessons

Managing Report Security

Managing Report Execution

Subscriptions and Data Alerts

Troubleshooting Reporting Services

Module 12: Delivering BI with SharePoint PerformancePoint Services

This module introduces Microsoft SharePoint Server as a platform for BI, and then focuses on building BI dashboards and scorecards with PerformancePoint Services.

Lessons

Introduction to SharePoint Server as a BI Platform

Introduction to PerformancePoint Services

PerformancePoint Data Sources and Time Intelligence

Reports, Scorecards, and Dashboards

Module 13: Performing Predictive Analysis with Data Mining

This module introduces data mining, describes how to create a data mining solution, how to validate data mining models, how to use the Data Mining Add-ins for Microsoft Excel, and how to incorporate data mining results into Reporting Services reports.

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